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A Grammatical Sketch of Northern Tai Long Shan

Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society
Current grammar descriptions of Shan varieties do not include the northern variety within the current Shan State. This article addresses this gap by providing a descriptive sketch of a northern variety of Shan, namely, northern Tai Long Shan.
Soh, Jyr Minn
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Ambiguity in Translation of Reduced Relative Clauses and Adverbial Clauses

Current Perspectives in Social Sciences
In English, relative pronouns and adverbial time or causal conjunctions might be omitted in the same way, thereby resulting in reductions. On the other hand, Turkish does not have reduction forms in RCs and ACs, which may lead to ambiguity in translation
Zeynep Başer, Mehpare Köseer Bütün
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Degrees of clause cohesion: complementation and subordination in Chiapas Zoque

Linguistic Discovery, 2012
Zoque exhibits various degrees of interclausal cohesion or types of embedding: juxtapostion, use of conjunctions, subordination with complementizers, and synthetic subordination by head marking. These various types of subordination are used for different
Jan Terje Faarlund
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The Syntax of Causal Clauses in Taiwan Southern Min

Studies in Chinese Linguistics
Causal clauses in Taiwan Southern Min (TSM) are an issue that has long been ignored. Based on data drawn from corpora and recordings, by means of a diagnostic based on locality effect (Pan and Paul 2018; Pan and Zhu 2023), we argue that in’ui ‘because ...
Wei Ting-Chi
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Adverbial Clauses In Mandarin Chinese: A Corpus-based Study

, 2013
What are adverbial clauses in Chinese? Do they all have subjects as their counterparts do in English? How do the semantic domains of adverbial clauses interact with the distribution of subjects?
Wong, LYM
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TIPOLOGI GRAMATIKAL DAN SISTEM PIVOT BAHASA PAKPAK-DAIRI

Litera, 2013
This study aims to describe the grammatical typology and pivot system of the Pakpak-Dairi language (PDL). The data were analyzed using the distribution method with substitution and transformation techniques.
Ida Basaria
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Mapping the Left Periphery of Similative Constructions: Dutch Dialects as a Case Study

Languages
The left periphery of non-standard Dutch similative clauses hosts a variety of different elements (such as gelijk “like”, zo “so”, als “as”, and hoe “how”) that can sometimes co-occur following a strict hierarchy that seems to hold in other (non-standard)
Marta Massaia
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Elicitation of adverbial clauses

, 2019
This is a recording of an elicitation of adverbial clauses in Mankiyali based on English sentences used as prompts. The contributors are Aurangzeb (a 34-year old male teacher) and Gohar-Ur Rehman (a 38-year old male shop owner)
Paramore, Jonathan Charles
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Scaling counterarguments:

Isogloss
This paper introduces Exclamative Se Constructions (ESCs), analyzing their use in two Romance languages: Trevigiano, a northern Italian dialect, and Standard Italian. ESCs are used to express shock or surprise at someone’s statement and to challenge its
Elena Callegari
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The diachrony of the Basque marker bait-: from a manner expression to subordinator

Linguistics
This article analyzes the diachrony of the Basque marker bait-, which is a verbal prefix in subordinate clauses, but also has other functions: for example, it appears in independent clauses and indefinite pronouns.
Krajewska Dorota
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